Martin St. Louis leads Rangers to 3-2 overtime win over Canadiens

Derick Brassard, Mats Zuccarello

Kathy Willens / Associated Press

New York Rangers center Derick Brassard celebrates with teammate Mats Zuccarello after scoring during the second period of the team's 3-2 overtime win against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals Sunday.

New York Rangers center Derick Brassard celebrates with teammate Mats Zuccarello after scoring during the second period of the team's 3-2 overtime win against the Montreal Canadiens in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals Sunday. (Kathy Willens / Associated Press)

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Martin St. Louis scores in overtime to send the Rangers to a 3-2 win over the Canadiens in Game 4

Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves and earned his 41st postseason win, tying the franchise record of Mike Richter, who was in attendance.

St. Louis and Hagelin both have a team-high six playoff goals.

The Rangers are 6-1 since the unexpected death of St. Louis' mother galvanized the team.

Francis Bouillon tied it for Montreal in the second, and fellow defenseman P.K. Subban made it 2-2 in the third with a power-play goal. David Desharnais assisted on both for Montreal. Tokarski stopped 26 shots for the Canadiens, who went one for eight on the power play.

New York can advance to the Final with a win at Montreal in Game 5 on Tuesday night. The Rangers, who rallied from a 3-1 deficit against Pittsburgh in the second round, won the first two games of this series there.

Now they hope to end it quickly north of the border.

"We've got to close it," St. Louis said.

Though there were 13 minor penalties, there was no carry-over of the nastiness in Game 3 when a hit by Montreal's Brandon Prust broke the jaw of New York forward Derek Stepan. Prust served the first game of a two-game suspension. Stepan sat out after having surgery.

The Rangers gave Montreal five power plays through the first two periods, and New York's penalty-killers stood tall as they have for most of the playoffs. But the sixth Canadiens advantage produced the tying goal 2 minutes into the third when Subban scored his first goal of the series and first point in six games.